original description Randall, J.W., 1840. Catalogue of the Crustacea brought by Thomas Nutall and J.K. Townsend, from the West Coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, with descriptions of such species as are apparently new, among which are included several species of different localities, previously existing in the collection of the Academy.— Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia 8: 106-147, Plates 3-7. [details]

basis of record Champion, H.F.B., 1973. New records of penaeid prawns from the east coast of southern Africa with notes on Penaeus marginatus Randall and a new species of Metapenaeopsis.— Crustaceana 25: 181-­203. (look up in IMIS) [details]